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164th Annual Meeting of Grace Episcopal Church

Sunday, January 22 at 9 a.m.

Everyone is encouraged to attend the 164th annual meeting of Grace Parish on Sunday, January 22, at 9 a.m. in the nave. At this gathering, parish members will elect new vestry members for three-year terms, hear reports on the parish's financial status, get an update on the new rector search process, and hear thoughts from our leadership on the year ahead.

The vestry approved expanding the number of Vestry members by one by adding one new member each year for 2023, 2024 and 2025. This change allows the vestry to expand participation in the leadership and management of the parish (this year, electing two new members instead of one). It is meant to encourage greater diversity in terms of parish input and greater support from the vestry for parish ministries. This change will bring the total number of vestry members to 12 by 2025. Current vestry member Chris Ludbrook will run for a one-year term, and Rebecca Harrison will run for a three-year term. Jane Cenova and Mike Lillmars were nominated to serve for a three-year term.

Vestry Nominees 2022

Each year at Grace's annual meeting, the nominating committee presents a slate of candidates for election to a 3-year term on the vestry. Vestry members may elect to run for a second term. This year's Annual meeting will be on January 30, 2022. Following is the slate of candidates for the class of 2022.

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The Annual Meeting is typically our only all-congregation meeting in any given year. It is when we gather, as a whole, to do the congregation's business. The congregation elects leadership to the vestry and representation to the Diocesan Convention. Even though the meeting does not approve the budget (that's the vestry's job), the budget is presented and discussed. The parish leadership offers reports and updates to the congregation, and the rector gives an annual report to the parish.

Annual meetings can revise or adopt new bylaws, given a process of formation and information leading up to the meeting, thus reconfiguring the congregation's everyday life and moving it in new directions. In other words, annual meetings are a big deal. They are the very place where necessary actions are taken to keep the congregation's common life and witness moving forward.

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